The 2nd Annual New Orleans Fringe Fest Announces Fringe Firearms Shows

THE SECOND ANNUAL NEW ORLEANS FRINGE FESTIVAL BEGINS ON WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11! Pick up next week's Gambit insert for the full schedule and visit www.nofringe.org and www.sidearmgallery.org

This year's festival is bigger and better with over 100 shows from 45 groups from New Orleans and around the country: opera buffa, drama, cryptic revival, physical clown-theater, dark comedy, cabaret, romance noir, shadow puppetry, butoh, hip hop, dance theater, environmental performance, puppet aerial musical and more...

Here's the poop on the Fringe Sidearm shows. Come early and come often! Shows are only $7 cheap.

Homage

Performing Group: FREEFALL
From: New York City
Genre: Dance-Theater

Darkly comic, extravagantly physical, rumination on the themes of love, war and justice. "The New York-based troupe follows in the absurdist footsteps of Beckett and Weill by employing a menacing vaudevillian style...urgent in a rambunctious-sad way. Performers are lovely and engaging even as frightening truths brew underneath." -Chicago Tribune. All ages.

Venue: Sidearm Gallery
Shows: 11/11 9:00 pm, 11/12 7:00 pm, 11/13 7:00 pm

Five Monologues in Search of a Play

Performing Group: Adam Falik
From: New Orleans
Genre: Drama

Five characters testify their part in a conspiracy to perform a play in which a woman carries a human head down a flight of stairs. Five separate monologues conjoin into a panoramic narrative in which the workings of artistic ambition, politics, sexual blackmail, and inner-city survival are woven.

Venue: Sidearm Gallery
Shows: 11/12 9:00 pm, 11/14 5:00 pm, 11/15 9:00 pm

The Danger Angels

Performing Group: Moose Jackson
Performing Group City: New Orleans
Genre: Rock cabaret

Poet Rev. Moose Jackson presents the tale of a down-and-out punk who finds rock and roll salvation on the dark carnival streets of New Orleans. A home-brewed rock cabaret.

Venue: Sidearm Gallery
Shows: 11/11 7:00 pm, 11/14 9:00 pm, 11/15 5:00 pm

He/She & Me: A Love Story

Performing Group: The Academy Theatre Featuring Sharon Mathis
From: Avondale Estates, Georgia

When her soul mate Sam becomes Sheila, Pat asks "Does his soul live in his penis? Is there ever a good day to leave your marriage?" Pat tries tap dancing, Buddhism, and shopping to find out. Audiences call this one woman drama/comedy "marvelous" and "essential".

Venue: Sidearm Gallery
Shows: 11/13 11:00 pm, 11/14 7:00 pm, 11/15 3:00 pm

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Best Lead Performer in a Musical - Top 3

1. LJ Benet - The Lost Boys, A New Musical

15.9% of votes

2. Joshua Henry - Ragtime

15.1% of votes

3. Nicholas Christopher - Chess

8.9% of votes

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